Now if I have Jacks and raise 800 and get re-raised for my stack I get pissed off and throw the Jacks in the trash where they belong if I don't know the player or if I know the player to be tight. If I know him to be loose I will call because he could have anything from K10 which I am a big favorite, AK which I am in a coin flip or a higher pair which I say damn the bad luck. The Lag is the guy you want to trap with your big hands. He is the player that is going to give you the chips to make it to the final table.
I like getting agressive the second and third hour but why play hands so well the first hour and then throw your chips away the second.
The reason for the calling and not pushing is that players are real brave pre flop with any Ax. But when it misses the flop there A starts looking real small and LAG will wait for the next guy he can bully and win his chips back.
Remember every hand plays differently against every player. Go after LAG with your made hands and go after TAG with your nut hands or nut draws if you have the odds to do so.
It is all about odds. That's what it takes to make the final table. Not just pot odds but odds the player has a better hand. Now to win it is going to take some luck also.
I am giving JJ and QQ advice. 1010 and lower I will most of the time muck in EP in the second or third hour when it is going to cost me my average stack to play the hand.
Short stacked I'm all in with any 77 or better. Big stacked I am applying the pressure with the same hand. But average stacked I am waiting for Mr. LAG to double me up.Statistics: Posted by TexasKowboy — Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:45 pm
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